Holder for swinging doors



Oct. 9, 1923;

A. W. M CLEEARY HOLDER FOR SWINGIING DOORS Filed April 18. 1922 fizve/z 5 6/? 11-73. M CLEEARY (fall whom it concern.

i a d c -f9, 1923. I 4:; 3

i 1 9at n nit i e-P 1 1 192 2-13 it. 1 known that-4 mm. W CLnnA-nY,"a citizen -of the,United' statesot EF T 3 E 'aaaniw ieawwa mm 10w 7 nonnnn iron 'swinern'efnoons,

we fa -lea es hlQ America, and; residentgo f Des Maine's, Poll; if v '5 County, Iowa,' have invented anewandusea 'fiil Holder {for Swinging Doorsfof which the-"following'is a specification.

" animproved'holding device a'daptedfto' be 10' engaged th'e free marginal Qporti'onof a {swinging door as'the doo-ris noved to open position, said: device being .moved -by'isu ch 1 engagement i of position 2 forholdin'g t he QdQorfin itsopen position 1 'iA furtherfobjectof this-inveatitnfijto were V ami an improved rotaryholding device adapted for automatic latchinglcir holding engagement; with, a swinging:door to hold the door in open positionlunjtil; such'tiine as it is'manually' released.

A further objectfof this invention i s toy provide, an efiicient'b holding. device for swinging doors which is sure infloperation, simple of construct on and not apt-to get out of order, s

My invention consists 1n the constructlon,

arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter'set forth, pointedxout in my i vclaims and illustrated by the accompanying Y drawing, in which' 3 v g Figure 1 is an elevatlon', partly in section, showing my improved device mounted in position for practical use, a portion of a door being indicated by dotted lines in positionfor engagement with the device. Fig- "ure 2 is a plan of the sa-me'elements, the position of the device after engagement by the door being indicated by dotted lines;

In the construction of the device as shown 40 the numeral lOdesignates a tubular support, such as a section of gas-pipe, adapted to be mounted in a vertical position in the ground or in a cement driveway adjacent a building such as a garage having swinging doors with support projecting above'the surfaceto a point somewhat below the horizontal plane of the lower margin of the door, such as 11.

The tubular support 10 is located near'thef '50 I are through which the free margin of the door 11 travels in moving fromfclosed to open positiom'such are being indicated by the dotted linel2 in Figure 2. 'Thesupport' I 10is threaded exteriorly at its upper send and a cap 13 is adapte'dto be screwed there 1 The. object or this: nventions to' p 'dtade E is mounted adjacent the path. of travel of" each of the doorsand atthe d jesired'flini necf essary limit of opening movement jofjthe door; When the door such aszlllis, moved-31' V to open'position, itsYfree' marginftraveling i 9O tion of the arrow oin Figure 2, theouter vfacevof the door contacts'one *or;another"of which the device. isto'be used, said tubular 11 .3; the ste en'a i amest-and ma tamed,

J for said cross-head mounted collars 21,; 22,} Rotatif are held in place by riveting. or upsetting the'up'per ends ofthe arms,- at 25, 26, 'orbyany other suitable meansji;

' In practical use one ofthe holdingi devi'ces all" through an arc on the line -12 in the direc-,'

the rollers 23,24, it beingunder stoodthat said rollers occupy a horizontal plane above If I cross-head l6,.support 10, cap 13 and nuts} the bottom margin of theidoorandth'at'the 17, 18 lie wholly below the planeof-the bot-1 1 to'mofithe door, except for the upturned arms 19,20 of said cross-head,1as clearly I i shown in Figure 1. Such engagement of the door with one of the rollers 23, 24-prod ucesj a, rotary movementiof the cross-head and a members carried thereby, on'the axis oi the --stem '14, v theengaged roller having r011in" mama with the outer faceo-f thedoor dursing such'movement. The line 12 passes; be;

tween thefrollers 23,24 when thecross-hea'd is in a position radially of the circumference'o-f which saidline is an are, so that the 1 free margin of the door' may pass betweenf-l lo v 7 said rollers and come to rest in. a position substaiitially at idght aii'gies to the flosshead and xte'ndiiig" across arid above" the same, as indicated by dotted lines in Figthrough aros indicated by the dotted lines 27 and 28 in said figure. It is obvious that 7 continued pressure on the door in the direction of the arrow a w ll not [tend toward i'ur -h rotarymov ment of tha 'Q s ad,

" 'ihiit iof the 'dQo jrKvilibe prevented by the This erigageiiieiit and automatic looking of the joor isfauto iatie is accomplished by n thr 'le'h' r e rntu ri g'p iiiag of the door, reg dless" of the iiiitial V lp os iti onof the'c'ifoss heafdland rollers, unless "iifa ppehthat they: be already iii a posihe iriileriiiost' roller," in this instance dpass between them out of the range wrun zmemen h s ie u ure 2, the axesof the-rollers having moved.

i v hioh a position of dead-center relative to the door, i andfthat cl s1ng"move-- "'ot her roller opposite tothe' one'fir'st engaged.

neS. 1 Figure}, so that thedoorinay e r'oss-head, ii a dire etio n opposite to stahce,or by driving it ihto the earth by blows applied to upper end of stem 1 L I claim as my inventiou-- l. A holding device for swin ng doors,

comprising a *tuhularsupport, a cap adapt edyto be screwed-on the upper end of said.

as i

supportfa stem loosely mounted through said capand formed with ahead on its" lower end freely-engaging the inner Walls" of said supportat a distancebelow saidcap;

on said Cross-head.

2. ritho ding" device 'for' sivir ging doors, i- V I co' 'nprisinga tubular support, a capadapted to be serewed'oi theupper end ofsaid sup port a stei passing loosely through said cap and prejecting a material distance within 1 v,

stem, and integral spaced upsta diug arms said support, said stem being fo'r nedwith ahead on its Io'i v er end portion logelyem gaging the inner 'iv aili sfof the support sa'id v ste'ih being threaded at its upper ehd, a Crosshead formed with an aperture reeeiving J said ste n, nuts screwed or s'ai'dsten on "039- pOLS l Sides and 'corit'actingsaid Cross- "hjead, said" cross-head being forme'dwith ispaee'd upstanding arms, and rollers jourri'a l'ed onsa-id arm's, said'rollers lying in a horizontal p'lane above the stem and suppo Y Y igned at Des Moines, in theeounty of Polk and State of IowaQthis 15th da'y of p f ALFRE 'WQ MCGLE ARY, 

